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From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: chmod usage
Message-ID: <qTiZm2w162w@cybrspc>
Date: 27 Jul 90 20:30:37 GMT
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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What with all the discussions about shar, of late, I wonder if you shar
gurus can answer a question...

In a "standard" shar, are all calls to chmod made in the form
'chmod 0755 filename'
       ^^^^
where the permissions are specified with 4 digits?

Reason being, I unpack stuff on a DOS machine, and I'm using ms_sh and
the Picnix utils. Picnix chmod expects {-|+|=} {w|r|h|s}, and so fails
with a numeric call. The obvious solution is to write my own chmod, but
I need to check the standard before I do it. Perhaps someone could mail
me a SYSV man page for chmod.

Thanks in advance. When it's done, I'll be posting the program, likely
to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.
--
    Roy M. Silvernail   | #include <stdio.h>                 | Does virtual
    now available at:   | main(){                            | reality need
 cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu |  float x=1;                        | swap space?
(cyberspace... be here!)|  printf("Just my $%.2f.\n",x/50);} | -- me